mata
French, verb
mata is a French verb meaning “third-person singular past historic of mater” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, mâta is a different word: “third-person singular past historic of mâter”.
What does mata mean in English?
verb
- 1
third-person singular past historic of mater
verb
- 1
third-person singular past historic of mâter
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gardien de bagne indigène, recruté localement en Indochine.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mata
- matas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mata in French?
mata appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).